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A recent survey of our members’ opinions shows that the protection and promotion of shooting and its conservation benefits is the single most important part of your Association’s work.
While we are together celebrating one hundred years of landmark successes in the promotion and defence of shooting, we must also ensure that BASC is in the best possible shape to continue to fight for shooting in the years ahead.
 
Even with around a million people regularly engaged in shooting, the future of the sport will depend on those who do not shoot and know little about it. Therefore it is imperative that BASC can keep ahead of our opponents and radically improve our ability to communicate with key politicians, opinion formers and the wider public.
How can we best achieve this? The way forward is to invest now in up to date communications equipment and the people we need to run our campaigns. Today’s media is changing rapidly; gone are the days when we could simply put out a press release. This is why BASC needs the best tools available to fight for shooting in a digital age.
Unfortunately our existing offices at Marford Mill cannot accommodate this vital expansion. Your Council has therefore decided that we need to construct a new building at the Mill to bring together this new technology and the operating team under one roof.
This new communications centre will enable us to enhance dramatically the scope and impact of our campaign to defend shooting. It is a decisive step forward that will massively develop our ability to make sure our message is heard.
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A TV facility for broadcast interviews will give BASC more opportunity to provide content for news items and feature programmes. | |
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An in-house video unit will prepare and edit fi lm for media outlets, from the web to production companies, satellite and terrestrial channels. | |
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A soundproofed radio studio equipped with the latest technology will give new opportunities to participate in interviews and studio discussions, broadcast research, make comment and answer challenges ‘on air’. | |
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A state-of-the-art design studio will allow more of BASC’s many publications to be designed and produced in house more cost effectively. | |
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Video-conferencing facilities will allow us to maximise the cost benefi ts of having a rural headquarters without losing out on face-to-face meetings in London, Brussels, Edinburgh, Cardiff or Belfast. | |
The total investment in the new equipment and building the communications centre will be in the region of £750,000. This will be a big undertaking for the Association but nevertheless a challenge we cannot afford to baulk at.
Rather than attempt to fund the project through subscriptions, Council has decided that the new communications centre should be the focus of our Centenary Appeal. With your support we can together secure the future of all shooting sports for the next century.
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